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Studies on Insect Wings Validate Engineering Models for Adaptation

The “long-winged” phenotype is generated if the environmental conditions deteriorate due to reduced food supply or overpopulation. Read More ›
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Photo: Chicken embryo, by Ben Skála (Own work) [GFDL or CC BY 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Jonathan Wells: Biological Information Beyond DNA

Dr. Wells explaining why DNA information in an embryo can only do its job in the context of spatial information that is specified independently of it. Read More ›
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Photo: C. elegans, by HoPo, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

To Build a Body Plan, Start with a Plan

What is a body plan if there is no plan behind it? It is not a body but a blob, a formless plop of biological matter. Read More ›
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Photo: Michael Behe, by Chris Morgan.

Listen: Michael Behe Answers Your Questions About Intelligent Design

What are some new examples of irreducibly complex systems? What are some objections to ID from well-known critics? Read More ›
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In Cells and Whole Organisms, Repair Mechanisms Imply Foresight, Not Evolution

It takes foresight to make complex tools and procedures that can restore the functions of other tools. A blind process can only see the immediate present. Read More ›
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When Does Human Life Begin?

Budding is the means of reproduction of some species of worms but it is most certainly not a means reproduction by human beings. Read More ›
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New Research on Animal Egg Orientation Shows “Unexpected” Diversity

Evolutionists cannot have it both ways. They cannot prove their theory when the findings work for them, and softly walk away when the findings do not work. Read More ›
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Cellular Self-Sacrifice — And an Allegory

No one knows how apoptosis came to be, although there are theories. Even the simplest of animals are programmed for it. Read More ›
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Doctor’s Diary: The Design of the Human Nervous System

Our skin and our insides are laced with an invisible, highly sophisticated, selective, neurological netting. Read More ›

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